From 81dcfea11a35da8f242cbe09b9c7f6886b8efba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Eischer <michael.eischer@fau.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 21:40:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dump: Mention tar output in command help text

---
 cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
index 96af115db..4a9e57a37 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ var cmdDump = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "dump [flags] snapshotID file",
 	Short: "Print a backed-up file to stdout",
 	Long: `
-The "dump" command extracts a single file from a snapshot from the repository and
-prints its contents to stdout.
+The "dump" command extracts files from a snapshot from the repository. If a
+single file is selected, it prints its contents to stdout. Folders are output
+as a tar file containing the contents of the specified folder.  Pass "/" as
+file name to dump the whole snapshot as a tar file.
 
 The special snapshot "latest" can be used to use the latest snapshot in the
 repository.